Scarecrow Attack by digitaldude555

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made by digitaldude555 for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

Hold right click to move right arm, left click for left arm. hold the arms inside the box to get harvest score.

Ratings

Overall 669th 3.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 642th 2.909⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 288th 3.475⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 479th 3.591⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 586th 3.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 150th 3.55⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 614th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

pinapl
10. Jan 2023 · 21:55 UTC
I had more fun playing this than I had any right to. Something about punching crows out of the air brought me great joy. I do with there was some sort of difficulty curve, though. Maybe the box moves, or more crows appear at a time, or they fly faster? Otherwise, very good, I managed to harvest 212 nondescript crops
UkuleleFury
10. Jan 2023 · 22:16 UTC
:) Nice game! I like the idea of an aggressive active scarecrow! And it was very satisfying to punch the crows! I'm not really sure how the harvesting works. And your UIs all seem a little broken--probably ran out of time with those! Great art though!
Adam Konig
10. Jan 2023 · 22:17 UTC
I did not expect to have so much fun. My favorite part was the crows! Very well executed!!
LDJam user 248799
10. Jan 2023 · 22:18 UTC
I took a little time to figure it out, but punching the crows is fun x)

Simple but clean art :ok_hand:
🎤 digitaldude555
10. Jan 2023 · 22:28 UTC
You hold you hand in the black box. @ukulelefury and yeah I scrapped my game idea from the first two days and had 1 day to make this one, im pretty happy I did at least something.
Flaterectomy
10. Jan 2023 · 22:46 UTC
I didn't read before I started and neglected to harvest for a while at the start. Oops! The strength of the game lies obviously in hitting the crows, but the harvesting felt a little meaningless other than running up the score. That said, smacking those crowd kept me entertained for a while!

I like the art, the scarecrow and crow sprites are great. The rectangle to harvest from is a little too much UI for my tastes, some other sprite would've been welcome there. I get it, though, that's just the nature of a limited amount of time in a gamejam.
🎤 digitaldude555
10. Jan 2023 · 22:54 UTC
@flaterectomy yeah no time, the harvest box is there so that you dont just keep your arms close to your body as a shield.
Phillip Scott
10. Jan 2023 · 23:26 UTC
hah punching crows! I wanted more crows, maybe some feather and screeching - maybe I have a problem.... was fun thanks for making!

![image_2023-01-10_232633668.png](///raw/123/b3/z/5604f.png)
Nick Saulnier
10. Jan 2023 · 23:28 UTC
I was not expecting much from looking at it first-glance and the text here, but this was deceivingly fun LOL. I like the control scheme a lot. Somewhere in between awkward and intuitive. GJ, especially knowing it was a pivot as mentioned above!
chompdev
11. Jan 2023 · 00:33 UTC
Pretty fun little concept here! The gameplay is clear and well implemented, and I really like the crow AI and unexpected dives they do. It definitely keeps things fun and interesting, and I survived to the ripe old age of 177 wheat. Great work on finishing the jam! :)

![score7.PNG](///raw/044/42/z/5607e.png)
Bloodfin
12. Jan 2023 · 01:08 UTC
This is a fun idea for a game, a nice little mix of moving and punching, though once I figured out I could just hold the mouse buttons down and wiggle around it did get very easy, so you may look at having a version where you can only click to move your arms so than it's a little more frantic clicking around trying to keep your hands up. Nice job finishing for the jam!
exofrenon
12. Jan 2023 · 01:09 UTC
Well, this was a weird game :smile: Simple and straightforward. The feedback from punching crows was really satisfying. The graphics did their job.

I think it would make more sense to keep your hands low to harvest and to raise them up when you need to punch the crows. I think it would also spice up the game if you could move the scarecrow left to right to pick up the next harvest.
ELVEVERX
13. Jan 2023 · 02:11 UTC
I found the art style really beautiful.

The actual hitting of the scarecrows felt so satisfying and very meaty.

I could never get very far but maybe that was just because I needed to git good.
🎤 digitaldude555
13. Jan 2023 · 12:37 UTC
Did no one submit a score on my game or does it not work? OH NO
arron-fowler
13. Jan 2023 · 13:09 UTC
It took me a mo to get my head round it but once I did it was pretty fun. The faking it that the crows sometimes do is a good tension raiser. Over all really nice job
Allie Vera
16. Jan 2023 · 17:21 UTC
Simple and effective. Between swatting down the crows and staring down the craftier ones before they made their move I had a great deal of fun!
Sheree
20. Jan 2023 · 09:55 UTC
Interesting game, super weird concept but entertaining none the less. Graphics were simple but nice. I did submit a score and saw above you were unsure if any one did, might be a bug. Cool game!
M2tias
27. Jan 2023 · 16:33 UTC
Graphics are nice, but the gameplay was a bit too simplistic. Maybe the harvesting could have been a bit more interesting somehow.